Welcome to the OG Scully – Nandor Fodor – an Eastern European ghost hunter and prolific author, who practiced his investigations during the heyday of Spiritualism, while debunking mediums and faux seances right and left. However he did specialize in one thing in particular: poltergeists.
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Boooobs: The (Haunted?) Palomino Club with Betsy Sodaro
This very special episode features actress and comedian, Betsy Sodaro, and delves into the dark past and present of Las Vegas’ Palomino Club. Nudity, murders, and ghosts? Oh my!
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Robert The Doll
Allegedly, one of the most haunted dolls in America, Robert was created in the image of his young owner at the turn of the 19th century in Key West, Florida.
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Sylvia Gaines: The Ghost of Green Lake
On June 17th 1926, the body of 22-year-old Sylvia Gaines was found on the shore of Green Lake in Seattle. The city was shocked. Who could have murdered this young woman so brutally?
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The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
In 16th century Hungary the “Infamous Lady” Elizabeth Bathory allegedly tortured and killed hundreds of her adolescent servant girls, bathing in and drinking their blood to renew her youth and beauty. Or did she?
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Comet Lodge Cemetery
It’s not every day you come across a park, err cemetery, littered in gravestones, surrounded by a quiet neighborhood, built atop children’s graves, rumored to house pioneer ghost children. Welcome to Comet Lodge Cemetery.
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For over the last 100 years, the Empress Hotel has been frequented by royalty, celebrities and movie stars…and ghosts.
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Victorian Ghost Histories of Christmas Pasts
Charles Dickens wasn’t the only one who wrote Christmas ghost stories. Where did they come from? Why Christmas ghost stories and not Halloween?
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Lizzie Borden Part Two: The Trial & Hauntings
How would you feel if your parents’ skulls were presented to you in a court room as you were tried for their murders? Not exactly the definition of a pleasant afternoon.
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Eat Your Heart Out, Mercy Brown: America’s First Vampire
Before there was Dracula, there was the real life, well documented vampire of New England, Mercy Brown. Or at least that’s what some liked to call her.
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